Shadows

I am a shadow A dark shadow with frozen fire inside Every glance that falls on me Is a cannon ball that bears The colour of toxic aversion It makes me dark melancholic black Forbidden is to me the right To aspire a hide other than black My thirst and hunger is numbed Brandishing whips and threatening to flay Wild tribal dance kicking and stamping Was performed on my lashed and wealed back I am dumb having pulled off my tongue I am blind having been gouged out the eye balls And deafened by pouring in to the ears molten lead The fire inside will blaze into an inferno That will burn down to ashes your fortress Together with the booty of colourful life Looted from humble truths And leaving them as lifeless shadows